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Sovereignty implies responsibility, not just power.
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You have said that your first priority is the eradication of extreme poverty.
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There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.
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Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
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In today's world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.
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We don't need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.
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For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.
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A genocide begins with the killing of one man—not for what he has done, but because of who he is.
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You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
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A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.
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Climate change does not respect national borders. We are all in the same boat; a hole at one end will sink us all.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
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Thank you, Senator [Hagel] for that wonderful introduction. It is a great honour to be introduced by such a distinguished legislator.
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No government has the right to hide behind national sovereignty in order to violate the human rights or fundamental freedoms of its peoples.
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I arrived there straight from Africa' - and I can tell you, Minnesota soon taught me the value of a thick overcoat, a warm scarf and even ear-muffs!
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We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.
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A world where many millions of people endure brutal oppression and extreme misery will never be fully secure, even for its most privileged inhabitants.
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And thanks to you, Mr Devine, and all your staff, and to the wonderful UNA chapter of Kansas City, for all you have done to make this occasion possible.
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Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.
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He is very calm — very, very calm. Never raises his voice. Well-informed, contrary to the sense outside that he is ill-informed and isolated. And decisive.
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The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people—almost half of all humanity—to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.
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Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.
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The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take
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More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
April 8, 1938
Died:
August 18, 2018
(aged 80)
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